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one experience with those cooler drinks in high school turned me off them good.

or what he might be hiding under the kilt

Scotch is definitely an acquired taste. Took me few years to pick it up. Also helped that I went to a school with a frickin bagpipe band, and the WASPiest student population in all the land.

Tell me...what are Chivas Regal and Glenfidditch named for?

Chivas Regal was founded by James and John Chivas. Glenfiddich was founded on the banks of the River Fiddich.

Nuts too slow

Chivas are the brothers who owned the store that blended the single malts to get Chivas Regal. Presumably they had other blends back in the day like Chivas Hobo or Chivas Peasant.

Glenfiddich is a single malt whisky so it is actually the distillery where it is produced to their recipe/process.

You guys are the best - i wish i was more a "rocket scientist" when it comes to all these factoids...

Barkeep, a round of Chivas Plebeian for everyone!

Sounds like where I did my undergrad - Queen's in Kingston.

Blended Scotch only became popular in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars when the supply of French Conjac and fortified wines was cut off to well-to-do Englishmen. Gin was obviously beneath them so they experimented with Scotch.

Apparently the Talisker was a wee bit harsh. (That stuff'll grow some hair on ya.) So they discovered blended scotch whisky which contained grain spirits making it milder.

A hearty Cha Geill to ya Semi.

Were there queens in Kingston, STF?

Could i have a vodka cooler, thanks?

Yes LAM, you can have a vodka cooler if you tell me how to make it. As for queens in Kingston - it wasn't very open when I went there, but that was quite a while ago and it's likely changed.

Well, you combine vodka with a little bit of wine and add soda water for extra fizz

Helps me to relax....here's a "Smooch" for your trouble, Brent

Thanks and a grey goose/sauvignon blanc/appolinaris special coming right up.

Queens at Queen's eh? I don't know how it was back in Semi's day but the school is still known as the most conservative in Canada.

But I knew lots of gay people as an undergrad, so they didn't hide from us who're on the other side of the fence. But it certainly wasn't like a big city with a large community or anything.

The mid-seventies at Queen's were pretty conservative - except for that one night when all the guys from Gordon and Brockington and the girls from Chown did oil thighs naked in the quad. (Oil Thigh, for those of you thinking of something else, was the the little dance that went along with the school song, also called Oil Thigh.) After the oil thighs, there were gangs of streakers all over campus. That was pretty risque for Queen's.

Mazzolla Oil?

Any of these streakers get away with it - or was the very act in general, grounds for expulsion?

Oil Thigh n'banrighin
n'banrighin gu brath.
Oil Thigh n'banrighin
cha geill! cha geill! cha geill!

The Quad also played the central role in the turning point for diversity at Queen's in the late eighties.

Some blockheaded guys at Brockington put up letters in the windows of their rooms spelling out a phrase mocking a date rape awareness campaign. After that things changed a lot, the school admin didn't like being on the national news in that way.

The school became predominately non-blonde for the first time in its history, much to this kid's chagrin Yes, I liked 'em fair preferably from Toronto Rosedale but whatever.

I don't think anyone got expelled. Queen's was conservative, but it protected its own.

If that meant the demise of the UCC/Havergal mafia, then it was a good thing.

I want whatever will make me not have a hangover and forget about last night's eight shots...

Well no, it's is still about elitism.

The school was actually the first in Canada to decouple it's professional school tuition rates from government funding. They've lobbied to do the same for general undergraduate degrees too. They call it a "maintaining quality". We'll see, its only a matter of time.

When the former socialist premier of Ontario recommends it during a governement review of education you know the fix is in.